Truly bizarre story of how two papers from the 1940s by physics pioneer Max Planck have been "retracted" from Naturwissenschaften, potentially by an algorithm, for anachronistic "plagiarism" issues, leaving the current editor baffled (but it is Springer Nature so.... www.science.org/content/arti...

These also tend to be the people who think the ADA is an agency you can call and complain to, rather than a law that only guarantees the standing to sue for violations. The fake “don’t ask me to wear a mask, love, the ADA” cards were grimly funny.

🧪 The @wsj.com now no longer has *any* science reporters on staff at all. None. Zero. I guess the management of the paper doesn’t think science has any bearing on the global economy. Is there truly no economically viable version of science reporting in general news media?

“I have done all of the things that one is supposed to do to earn a tenure-track position. And I have done approximately 85% of them by typing prompts into a large language model and then moderately editing the output.” 🤣🤣🤣 brilliant 👌🏽 open.substack.com/pub/inprepar...

The 5th place swimmer is now supporting throwing women in prison for obtaining an abortion. So much for being pro women. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/24/u...

I assimilated all the way to Congress and this idiot still tells me to go back where I came from.

Sure you've gotten science prizes and awards, but have you ever won a unicorn plushie at a conference? 🤘🏻🦄💃🏻

Six years since the start of COVID and this type of misinformation by omission is still rampant. The best protection against airborne pathogens is wearing a high quality mask.

The Supreme Court's decision to strip TPS from Haitian and Syrian communities is a betrayal of our values and of the promise our country made to protect people from displacement and harm. I'll never stop fighting for our immigrant neighbors and loved ones.

This is a tremendous piece by Judy Stone at @forbes.com. This new OMB rule is going to hurt communities from coast to coast. Federal grants are not just about research! www.forbes.com/sites/judyst...

Martin Torres explains that if a lab is not accessible to all types of students, then the issue is not the student: ‘The problem is that the environment was not designed with accessibility in mind.’ @mwakley.bsky.social www.chemistryworld.com/careers/maki...

‘Poor Usha Vance’ No. Stop taking her agency from her. She clerked for conservative judges. Listen to her speak. She’s clearly a right wing desi, plenty of them around who have reprehensible politics, support Trump and Modi, and want fascism. She doesn’t need your sympathy. Her children, otoh, do.

#PSA for #Philly

Like the ICE warehouses not happening, this is something to celebrate, but there's still a big question here: Where did all the money go? This shoddily built human-rights nightmare supposedly cost $1 BILLION. The graft here is beyond imagination

Waiting for the tech bro accelerationists to claim that science is at a standstill and there are no real breakthroughs anymore, so we need to completely destroy the US research ecosystem.

This is how much they are trying to cut NSF because we can't afford science!

Never did I think I would see a cure for sickle cell in my lifetime. A friend of mine in fifth grade died from this disease. My parents kept me home from the funeral because they thought I was too young to handle it. Modern science is a miracle. www.wafb.com/2026/06/23/n...

Fifth and *last* #SCOTUS ruling is in Blanche v. Lau. For the usual 6-3 majority (4/5 today), Justice Thomas sides with Trump administration in narrow dispute over standard for when a lawful permanent resident who commits certain crimes can be stopped at the border when re-entering the country:

🧪⚛️ What is going on within NSF? What is an X-Lab? More on today's news of cuts. nanoscale.blogspot.com/2026/06/bad-...

🧪⚛️ Bad to worse at NSF, as it sounds like the regular directorates are being strip-mined at the 20-30% level to support the X-Labs from TIPS, in apparent defiance of the FY26 appropriations bill. www.science.org/content/arti...

Yeah, fuck this. Our public money is essentially being diverted from science to supporting the stock prices of ruling party donors.

Exclusive: The National Science Foundation is trimming this year’s budgets for hundreds of its traditional basic science programs by roughly 20% to 30%, even though its overall budget is down just 3%. https://scim.ag/4xY2KCm

"a black presidency is a contradiction—it owes its power to a movement against racist state violence at home but seeks an office which has always practiced racist state violence abroad... no paywall: archive.ph/SSLbJ#select...

Happy summer solistice! The longest day of the year! That means you have extra daylight minutes to both write to your members of Congress on the new OMB rule AND submit a comment to regulations.gov. See below for how submit a comment. And share, share, share. 1/ actionnetwork.org/letters/oppo...

Worth a read: Immigrant, anti-fascist when it counted, and an amazing scientist whose work enabled recombinant DNA 🧪

For more than two decades, Mona Khalil protected the endangered sea turtles that laid their eggs on a beach in Lebanon and kept predators away from the hatchlings. On June 4, she was wounded in an Israeli airstrike in southern Lebanon, and on Friday, she died of her injuries, a close friend said.

Zohran Mamdani: "The Democratic Party must change. The race for 2028 starts now. Politics that waits for convenience will never feel the urgency to address the people's inconvenience."

Lysenkoism of the '40s caused devastating famines, 15-25M deaths, lost scientific advancement & brain drain. What an expensive mistake. At stake in 2026- The loss of scientific advancement, our ability to address health challenges & more. An important read. 🧪🧵 www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Nice to see even Al Jazeera is doing the NYT's "woman in chador walks in front of a scary wall" propaganda image when covering news about Iran. 🤦🏻‍♀️ Really curious to know who takes all these photos. In the busy streets of Tehran this is a hard find.

🧪⚛️ This trend is exceedingly bad. I know that program officers within NSF still are aiming to make all their awards before end of the fiscal year, but I worry very much whether OMB et al. will allow that. grant-witness.us/posts/2026-0...

After the Supreme Court first gutted the VRA in 2013, Black voter turnout decreased — especially in the South. After the Supreme Court gutted it again this year, multiple Southern states have already begun trampling on Black voting power. This is Chief Justice John Roberts’ legacy.

I've spent the last two months putting together this exhaustive analysis of the New York Times coverage of trans people. It covers 3,242 articles over 12 years. In 2022, the NYT shifted towards a hostile stance towards trans people in their framing. www.thedissident.news/exclusive-ho...

Ths is flying under the radar, but Russ Vought is advancing a new scheme to give Trump's cronies total control of nearly $179B in federal grant funds. Billions for lifesaving disaster relief and medical research would be subject to Trumpian loyalty oaths. Make no mistake: this is fascism.

This is a good one.

Trump’s nominee for the No. 2 post at the White House budget office told lawmakers Wednesday that the administration will stop federal cash from flowing to “divisive ideologies” under new grant rules in the works. www.politico.com/live-updates...

This was perfection

As the government raids “antifa groups” in Minneapolis with the SAME charges levied against myself and the rest of the Broadview Six, we need to be asking how they got this indictment. And as charges (hopefully) get dropped, we must remember the process is the punishment.

A decade ago, JD Vance told a friend Trump could become "America's Hitler." Today, a crush-them-with-troops Vance looks poised to become America's Hitler, an 80-year-old clogged heartbeat from power We need to stop Vance from becoming 48th president. My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

In the same vein, commentators discussing the horde of Ecuador fans who took over the stadium in Philly never mentioned that their opponent, Cote d'Ivoire, has been travel-banned by the Trump regime

Better late than never: Last night (after a 17-year run), I finally deleted the X/Twitter app, for good This column explains why and questions the sanity of a world where Elon Musk can egg on a race riot on Tuesday, then become a trillionaire on Friday www.inquirer.com/opinion/elon...

worth a read | at least one actual LOL for me

Last image from tonight (short film in the morning): this brother out here with his Singer sewing machine, gifting people a custom embroidery on their jerseys and hats with the name and the date, was more artistic than anything at Burning Man and ad gorgeous as a Caravaggio. Magic! Goodnight.

Employers spend almost $1.7 billion a year hiring union-busting consultants and law firms to stop their workers from organizing for better wages and working conditions. Imagine if they spent that money on their workers instead?

The Schroeder's ceasefire between the Schrodinger's supreme leader, no one has seen in months, and the indecisive president, puts it's observation probability at 1/8. We're doomed. 🫠

There's no bigger U.S. scandal right now than the human beings dying needlessly in ICE gulags. I took a deep dive into the April death of Philly's Tuan Van Bui, Amerasian child of the Vietnam War Cellmates say ICE's version of his death is total BS My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/tuan...

it is truly remarkable how effectively "radical centrists" managed to mainstream neo-Nazism, in the space of about 10 years

"She would make sure that all 535 packets of letters and drawings were delivered to every member of Congress. She would keep telling the stories of the children she’d met." Keep going, Ms. Rachel. (gift link) wapo.st/4ecHKP2

As a former astronaut, I’ve got high standards for space movies. Here are my favorites.

This thug cop should be behind bars - a broken system share.inquirer.com/O9pMuc